James Baldwin Resources

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of work. The goal is to give you an access point at which to explore more of the work of James Baldwin. Let the path take you where it may.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.

A Letter to My Nephew

Watch/Listen

• James Baldwin Discusses Racism | The Dick Cavett Show
• Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin
• James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
• “WE ARE NOT WILLING TO WAIT ANOTHER 1000 YEARS” Malcolm X, James Baldwin
• 1984 James Baldwin Interview • Hampshire College Archives and Special Collections
• A Conversation With James Baldwin | Dr. Kenneth Clark | May 24, 1963
• JAMES BALDWIN: Interview (Florida Forum, Miami) 1963
• JAMES BALDWIN & NIKKI GIOVANNI – A CONVERSATION (1971)

Read

• James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78
• A Report from Occupied Territory
• An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis
• The Harlem Ghetto: Winter 1948
• Fifth Avenue, Uptown
• The Creative Process
• History Is A Weapon: They Can’t Turn Back
• How Can We Get the Black People to Cool It?
• On the Horizon
• The Price May be Too High